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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: commitment
10 Aug 2026 Acquired Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
“Everybody remembers what just happened to the music industry with Napster. Bob is saying, no, we are going to embrace technology.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- commitment
- Recorded
- 10 Aug 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
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…Yep. So that's one. Two: We need to embrace technology to the fullest extent. Now, this sounds like, "duh," why wouldn't you do that? But this is actually kind of a radical statement at this point in time. We're about to enter an era where the entire traditional media industry is going to be either running scared or actively trying to fight tech in Silicon Valley. Viacom is about to launch a lawsuit against YouTube to try and sue it out of existence. Everybody remembers what just happened to the music industry with Napster. Bob is saying, no, we are going to embrace technology. Both to produce fresh, new, cutting-edge content the way that Walt did, but also embrace technology as a distribution medium and figure out how to use that to our advantage, not let technology be the reason for our downfall.…
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